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похищавам — meaning in English

pohishtavam

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English meaning

  • abduct verb To take a person away by force, usually secretly and against their will; to kidnap.
  • kidnap verb To unlawfully seize and hold a person captive, often to demand a ransom.
  • reave verb To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Senses

похищавам is used for these senses in English:

  • abduct (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]
  • kidnap (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. [from 17th c.]
  • reave (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

abduct — full definition

  1. verb To take a person away by force, usually secretly and against their will; to kidnap.
  2. verb In anatomy, to move a limb or body part away from the midline of the body.

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